{"id":58712,"date":"2025-05-29T21:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=58712"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T01:36:25","slug":"kieron-gillen-and-julian-simpson-join-cosmic-dark-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=58712","title":{"rendered":"Kieron Gillen and Julian Simpson Join Cosmic Dark Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/grahamwalmsley\/cosmic-dark?ref=10ln30\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Weird space horror game Cosmic Dark has passed 500% funding on Kickstarter<\/span><\/a>, with stretch goals by writer Kieron Gillen and Lovecraft Investigations creator Julian Simpson already funded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">From the author of Cthulhu Dark, Cosmic Dark takes you to the far reaches of the galaxy, where a golden wound-like object called The Glitch dominates the sky. This is where Extracsa, a mining and resources consortium, has sent you, until you leave, die or lose your mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">&#8220;Cosmic Dark is a whole new universe of horror,&#8221; said author Graham Walmsley, \u201cThere are time loops, alternate universes, doppelgangers, all twisted until they&#8217;re surreal and wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">The game has no character creation or set-up. You sit down at the table and start playing straight away, making characters and worlds as you go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Cosmic Dark is a beautiful 180-page hardback book, with cover art by Paul Bourne of Handiwork Games. The wonderfully disturbing interior art is by Matteo Bocci, who also illustrated Cthulhu Dark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Kieron Gillan, Jadzia Axelrod and Gar Hanrahan have all signed up to do stretch goals, along with award-winning game designers Jeeyon Shim, Alex Roberts and Grant Howitt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">&#8220;Graham&#8217;s approach to tabletop RPGs has been a huge influence on my game mastering&#8221;, said actor and comedian Jared Logan, who is also writing a stretch goal. &#8220;And all of that occult wisdom is in the design for Cosmic Dark.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/grahamwalmsley\/cosmic-dark?ref=10ln30\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\">Here is a link to the Kickstarter<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/grahamwalmsley\/cosmic-dark\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird space horror game Cosmic Dark has passed 500% funding on Kickstarter, with stretch goals by writer Kieron Gillen and Lovecraft Investigations creator Julian Simpson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[5088,3521,3542,5089],"class_list":["post-58712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-rpg-news","tag-cosmic-dark","tag-headline","tag-kickstarter","tag-space-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}